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Job 7 :: Bible in Basic English (BBE)

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:1 - Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:2 - As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:3 - So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:4 - When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:5 - My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:6 - My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:7 - O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:8 - The eye of him who sees me will see me no longer: your eyes will be looking for me, but I will be gone.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:9 - A cloud comes to an end and is gone; so he who goes down into the underworld comes not up again.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:10 - He will not come back to his house, and his place will have no more knowledge of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:11 - So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:12 - Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:13 - When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:14 - Then you send dreams to me, and visions of fear;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:15 - So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:16 - I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:17 - What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:18 - And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:19 - How long will it be before your eyes are turned away from me, so that I may have a minute's breathing-space?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:20 - If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 7:21 - And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.
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The Bible in Basic English was translated by Professor Samuel Henry Hooke (1874-1968)
This translation of the Bible is in the public domain.

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Job Chapter 7 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation New International Version English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras